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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A are so successful at adapting to changes that is has little effect upon them
B are at a time in their development when they do not really care that their parents divorce
C understand that there are other reasons that their parents divorced that have nothing to do with them
D also blame themselves
Question #2
A rejected-withdrawn; low in self-esteem; low in social skills
B popular; high in self-esteem; high in social skills
C controversial; high in self-esteem; low social skills
D neglected; low in self-esteem; high in social skills
Question #3
A rises; peaks; declines
B rises; declines; rises
C declines; rises; declines
D declines; plateaus; rises
Question #4
A Intelligence enhances popularity in middle school for those with good social skills, so he probably is quite popular.
B He is probably very popular since students really respect intelligence regardless of how good his social skills are.
C Since other students are jealous of his intelligence, he is probably not very popular.
D Since he is “nerdish” he probably has very few, if any, friends.
Question #5
A popular
B rejected
C neglected
D controversial
Question #6
A controversial
B neglected
C rejected
D popular
Question #7
A social status
B social with-it-ness
C social construct
D social knowledge
Question #8
A Her friend probably told her that she is moving to a new school.
B They probably just have different interests now.
C Her friend betrayed her trust.
D Her friend probably showed interest in a boy that your daughter likes.
Question #9
A Heidi, who is in Salima’s class, plays on her soccer team, and attends the church
B Tom, who attends Salima’s church but is in a different class and plays youth football
C Gary, who was in Salima’s first grade class, invited her to his birthday party, and does poorly in school.
D Barbara, who is friends with Salima’s older brother and lives in the same neighborhood
Question #10
A This is typical. There is quite a bit of disruption when a divorce occurs and children typically resent their stepfathers.
B You have no idea why his stepchild did this. The stepchild was probably confused.
C Not to worry. This picture was probably drawn before he was part of the family
D The biological father probably told the children to draw pictures of the family with him omitted to purposefully hurt his feelings.
Question #11
A mitigating forces
B the Cold War phenomenon
C escalation effect
D coercive cycle
Question #12
A externalizing problems
B internalizing problems
C incomplete dominance problems
D existential problems
Question #13
A high; positive
B low; negative
C low; positive
D high; negative
Question #14
A “I’m a fast runner and I like soccer.”
B “I’m good at spelling but there are three kids in my class who are better than me.”
C “Johnny pushed me and then took my toy truck”
D “I’m really good at math.”
Question #15
A social comparison
B social rejection
C social relations
D social template
Question #16
A I really love playing soccer, but I have a little difficulty shooting
B I like my soccer ball.
C My soccer team is 4 and 1for the season.
D I wish that I could play soccer all day long!
Question #17
A He reacts angrily and throws the gift down and runs to his room.
B He laughs and yells out, “You are kidding, right?”
C He conceals his true feelings of disappointment because he does not want to hurt his grandparents’ feelings.
D He begins to cry in disappointment, which makes your parents feel horrible.
Question #18
A He would be enormously happy that he made it. He worked hard to get to the next round.
B He would be enormously sad that his study partner did not make it to the next round and would not be able to find any joy in making it himself.
C He would probably not express much in the way of emotions, as children in middle childhood are not very emotionally mature or responsive.
D He would have mixed emotions. He would be happy that he made it, but also sad that his study partner did not.
Question #19
A contentment and emotional stability
B unhappiness and emotional instability
C agitation and feelings of being tense
D depression and anxiety
Question #20
A universal; grown exponentially
B frequent; declined substantially
C rare; increased substantially
D unusual; disappeared
Question #21
A “If you want your son to be bilingual it is recommended that you wait until he is at least 14 to teach the second language. The brain is further developed at a later age.”
B “It is generally not recommended to teach bilingualism as it is too much for the child to handle. Their brains are just not ready for it.”
C “Most of the research for bilingualism is positive. Sometimes children have difficulty with syntax; however, it is better to learn a second language sooner than later.”
D “If you teach your child both English and Spanish his teacher will become frustrated and take it out on his grades. It is generally not recommended.”
Question #22
A unfavorable; interferes
B detrimental; interferes
C favorable; does not interfere
D stifling; does not interfere
Question #23
A a whole-language approach to reading
B sight words–based reading
C literacy-based rating
D phonics-based reading
Question #24
A creative intelligence
B analytical intelligence
C logical–mathematical intelligence
D practical intelligence
Question #25
A intrapersonal intelligence
B bodily–kinesthetic intelligence
C spatial intelligence
D musical intelligence
Question #26
A interpersonal and intrapersonal
B spatial and naturalistic
C linguistic and logical–mathematical
D musical and bodily–kinesthetic
Question #27
A evolution
B genetics
C environment
D neurological development
Question #28
A variance from the mean
B standard deviation
C reaction range
D heritability ratio
Question #29
A the less correlated their IQ scores are
B the higher the correlation in their IQ scores
C the greater the likelihood that there will be children with very low IQ scores in the family
D the greater the diversity in subskills on an intelligence test
Question #30
A variance from the mean; absolute value
B normal distribution; bell
C inverted-U; inverted-V
D camelback; double hill
Question #31
A knowledge base gets larger
B brains get bigger
C strategies become more elaborate and purposeful
D families help them remember
Question #32
A rehearsal
B organization
C repetition
D elaboration
Question #33
A It is very common in the United States for physicians to misdiagnose ADHD.
B That the neighbor is correct, there must be something else going on too. Medication is not the treatment of choice in the United States.
C That the neighbor is correct, the treatment of choice in the United States is relaxation therapy.
D It is very common in the United States to treat ADHD with medication. About 90% of children with ADHD receive medication.
Question #34
A have a right hemisphere that is noticeably larger than the left hemisphere
B are slightly smaller and grow more slowly
C have a larger corpus collosum
D have neurofibulary tangling and plaques
Question #35
A He should worry, almost all children have ADHD today.
B Since his wife does not have ADHD the baby probably will not either.
C He does not need to worry, ADHD skips a generation.
D He is probably correct to worry, there is a genetic link for ADHD and boys are more likely to have it.
Question #36
A attention displacement disorder (ADD)
B attention hypertensive disorder (AHD)
C attention deficit disorder (ADD)
D attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Question #37
A decentering and critical processing
B motivation and diligence
C visual scanning and search routines
D attention and memory
Question #38
A seriation
B parallelism
C conservation
D transitive inference
Question #39
A animism
B decentering
C reversibility
D egocentrism
Question #40
A “I can’t tell”
B “the ball”
C “they are both the same”
D “the long one”
Question #41
A His son is probably not going to be athletic. He is too clumsy.
B Perhaps your brother should enroll his son in gymnastics to help him improve his coordination.
C Gross motor skills continue to develop for quite a while, he should be patient.
D His son’s chance of being a great baseball player are doomed. Your nephew’s fine motor skills seem to be abnormal.
Question #42
A Obese children, not overweight children, are the happiest children in most cultures.
B Although overweight children tend to be happier compared to their peers, this is only true in adolescence, not earlier in childhood.
C Overweight children are at risk for a variety of emotional and behavior problems.
D Not only are they the happiest, they have the most friends.
Question #43
A high income families
B ethnic minority groups
C first-generation families
D White American families
Question #44
A emaciated; underweight
B underweight; emaciated
C overweight; obese
D obese; overweight
Question #45
A developing countries; reading, writing, and using computers
B developing countries; hunting, farming, and gathering
C developed countries; hunting, farming, and gathering
D developed countries; reading, writing, and using computers
Question #46
A gender constancy
B gender schemas
C gender roles
D gender identity
Question #47
A sexual-social identity
B a biological construct
C gender socialization
D a sex schema
Question #48
A she should not be concerned; most children in early childhood go through this phase and will eventually stop being aggressive
B as it turns out, very aggressive children during early childhood perform at superior levels in school
C she should be concerned; aggressive behavior in early childhood is a predictor of aggression in adolescence and adulthood
D she should be concerned, but there is nothing that she can do
Question #49
A hostile aggression
B instrumental aggression
C verbal aggression
D relational aggression
Question #50
A Instrumental aggression; hostile aggression
B Hostile aggression; instrumental aggression
C Physical aggression; relational aggression
D Relational aggression; physical aggression
Question #51
A quiet play, role playing, fantasy, and cooperative play
B competitive play in which there are clear “winners”
C watching television and engaging in aggressive acting
D rough and tumble, high activity, and aggressive play
Question #52
A quiet play with many individuals cooperatively playing
B very introspective play with considerable role playing
C watching television and acting out the roles they are watching
D rough and tumble, high activity, and aggressive play
Question #53
A less likely they would be aggressive and antisocial in adolescence
B the more likely they would be depressed and psychologically damaged as adults
C the less likely that these children would graduate from high school
D greater the likelihood that they would be aggressive and antisocial in adolescence
Question #54
A Psychological control
B Authoritative parenting style
C Corporal punishment
D An insecure attachment
Question #55
A is a cultural mandate that requires all parents to express high responsiveness and high demandingness to their children
B is an emphasis of love, closeness, and mutual obligation within the Latino family
C parents show a hands-off approach that is characteristic of low demandingness and low responsiveness
D is common in Asian cultures where children are expected to respect, obey, and revere their parents throughout life
Question #56
A one-way or unilateral relationship
B hypothetical or theoretical relationship
C exponential or quadrupling relationship
D reciprocal or bidirectional relationship
Question #57
A permissive
B authoritative
C authoritarian
D disengaged
Question #58
A high demandingness and high responsiveness.
B low demandingness and low responsiveness.
C high demandingness and low responsiveness.
D low demandingness and high responsiveness.
Question #59
A permissive
B disengaged
C authoritarian
D authoritative
Question #60
A authoritarian
B disengaged
C authoritative
D permissive
Question #61
A control; warmth
B warmth; control
C empathy; limitations
D limitations; empathy
Question #62
A self-socialization
B gender socialization
C gender roles
D gender constancy
Question #63
A He has nothing to be concerned about. Overcontrol is associated with extraordinary academic success.
B He should not be concerned; she will lighten up on her own soon.
C He should be glad; a friend of yours has a child who has absolutely no self-regulation and that child is very hard to control.
D He should be concerned in that overcontrol is associated with depression and anxiety when she gets older.
Question #64
A ulcers and other physical problems
B not likely to have serious relationships as adults
C not realizing their academic potential
D aggression and conflict in early childhood and beyond
Question #65
A the morphemic quality of language
B the grammatical quality of language
C how prosody varies within language
D the pragmatic quality of language
Question #66
A a time period in which the learning of language must occur or it never will
B a time period in which the capacity for learning new words is especially pronounced
C a time period in which the rules of language are best learned
D a time period in which children must be exposed to spoken language in order to learn it
Question #67
A Piaget’s model of readiness, as strictly as possible
B an instructional method that is as formal as the children understand
C developmentally appropriate educational practice
D the Socratic method
Question #68
A education and training of teachers, class size and child–teacher ratio, age-appropriate materials and activities, and teacher–child interactions
B parenting style of the caregivers, quality of educational material, temperament and reactivity of the children, and class size and teacher–child ratio
C child temperament, the parenting style of the children’s home environment, physical facilities, and emotional reactivity of caregivers
D age-appropriate materials and activities, parenting styles of caregivers, temperament and reactivity of the children, and teacher–child interactions
Question #69
A Carl Rogers
B Sigmund Freud
C Jean Piaget
D Lev Vygotsky
Question #70
A Piaget overestimated children’s capabilities.
B Piaget underestimated children’s capabilities.
C Piaget was biased since his theory was mostly based on observation of his children.
D Piaget did not really like children.
Question #71
A representational operations
B intuitive thought
C formal operations
D symbolic function
Question #72
A using a stick as a “magic wand” turning rocks into dolls
B pretending that they are on a different planet
C engaging in play in which there are two or more teams
D leaving their footprints in the dirt
Question #73
A centration
B egocentrism
C animism
D reversibility
Question #74
A what you see
B what she sees
C how many pages there are in the book
D what the story is about
Question #75
A “They lack the ability to distinguish between their own perspective and another person’s perspective.”
B “They often attribute human thoughts and feelings to inanimate objects and forces.”
C “They have difficulty understanding that objects can be simultaneously part of more than one class or group.”
D “They often focus on one noticeable aspect of a cognitive problem to the exclusion of other important aspects.”
Question #76
A conserve
B center
C operate
D tertiary operate
Question #77
A writing; throwing
B jumping; running
C throwing; writing
D running; jumping
Question #78
A infantile amnesia
B childhood forgetfulness
C false memories
D brain damage
Question #79
A the corpus callosum
B the reticular formation
C the hippocampus
D the cerebellum
Question #80
A the new preschool that she is now attending
B superior parenting
C growth in her frontal lobe
D superior genetics